the beginnings.... david walker spread ideas through mending sailor’s pants roots of abolitionism...
DESCRIPTION
The Colonization Liberia ( ) Who? Freed blacks and emancipated slaves Why? Some Abolitionists believed the blacks would never receive equal treatment in America African American reaction? Most were offended, they considered themselves AmericanTRANSCRIPT
The Beginnings. . . .• David Walker
• Spread ideas through mending Sailor’s pants
• Roots of Abolitionism• Mennonites• Quaker: Benjamin Lundy
– Gradual Emancipation (1821)
The Colonization Liberia (1817-1831)
• Who? • Freed blacks and emancipated
slaves
• Why?• Some Abolitionists believed the
blacks would never receive equal treatment in America
• African American reaction?• Most were offended, they
considered themselves American
Radical Abolitionism
• William Lloyd Garrison• The Liberator (antislavery newspaper)• Founded the American Anti-Slavery Society
“I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—AND I WILL BE HEARD!
Frederick Douglass
• Intelligent former slave and great orator– Taught to read by his
master’s wife– Escaped at age 21– Spent his life devoted to
the Abolition Movement• North Star
“They who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the
ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without
the awful roar of its many waters.”
Divisions Among Abolitionists
• Women’s Participation– Sarah and Angelina Grimké – Sojourner Truth (freed slave)
– Believed mission was to spread the “Truth”
• Race– Blacks felt that White abolitionists looked down on
them– Split Garrison and Douglass
• Tactics– Was slavery Constitutional?
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad
• A Network of escape to transport slaves to freedom in the North and Canada
• Harriet Tubman– “Black Moses” – Led over 300 slaves to
safety
Routes to the North
• The River:– Risky trip up the Mississippi to Illinois– Often patrolled by slave hunters
• Swamps– Safe from pursuit, but natural dangers to face– Led to routes into Canada
• Mountains– Forest and caves offered shelter– Served as a pathway to the North
Resistance to Abolitionism
• North:– Sour relations with the South (harming trade)– Feared competition for jobs– “White Only” communities
• South– Defend way of life– Prohibited abolitionist mail/ideas
• “GAG RULE”-prohibited anti-slavery petitions from being read in the house (8 years)